Archive: April 30, 2026

SANYA, China, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At noon on April 30, the women’s beach handball final of the 6th Asian Beach Games Sanya 2026 was held at the Tianya Haijiao Competition Venue. Vietnam defeated China in a penalty shootout to claim the final gold medal of this edition of the Games, while China took silver. With that, competitions across 14 sports, 15 disciplines, and 62 events concluded. The Chinese delegation finished with 24 gold, 18 silver, and 13 bronze medals, topping the overall medal standings.

Sanya 2026 marked China’s second time hosting the Asian Beach Games, and was also the first major international multi-sport event held following the island-wide special customs operations of the Hainan Free Trade Port. Zhang Xin, deputy head and secretary-general of the Chinese sports delegation, said: “China’s gold medal achievements showed encouraging breakthroughs across multiple areas and broad-based success. Most encouragingly, several sports achieved historic breakthroughs.” Among them, young sport climber Zhao Yicheng broke the men’s speed sport climbing world record in 4.58 seconds. Several events set new Games records, while China swept all gold medals in aquathlon and open water swimming.

The organization of the Games also received high praise. At the press conference summarizing the event held on the 29th, Husain Al-Musallam, Director General of the Olympic Council of Asia, praised this edition of the Asian Beach Games as a model of green, safe, simple, and digital event organization, noting that all delegations experienced Sanya’s warmth and charm.

For the host city of Sanya and for Hainan as a whole, the “traffic” generated by the Games is being converted into economic “gains.” The vibrant beach competitions have driven a surge in consumption across the entire chain, including tourism, accommodation, catering, cultural and creative industries, and duty-free retail. The vision of “hosting one event, developing multiple industries, and benefiting the region” is becoming a reality.

Sanya 2026 is drawing to a close, but a new chapter in China’s beach sports has only just begun. The footprints left by the athletes will inspire more people to devote themselves to this captivating arena.

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BANGKOK, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As a standout in Huawei’s square smartwatch lineup, the HUAWEI WATCH FIT Series has consistently embodied the brand’s dedication to fashion, innovation, and thinness. With a design that exudes a relaxed yet dynamic aesthetic, the series has long served as both a trusted health companion and a versatile tool for self-expression among younger audiences. In 2026, the HUAWEI WATCH FIT Series takes a bold step forward, introducing a refined color palette and advanced craftsmanship to further expand the boundaries of modern fashion.

The HUAWEI WATCH FIT 5 Series builds on the iconic square design, bringing a fresh range of colors, better materials, and an upgraded feel on the wrist. These updates deliver a more comfortable and breathable feel, perfectly aligning with the aesthetic preferences of urban users in various settings while conveying a vibrant and energetic lifestyle. The series features a variety of skin-friendly and breathable strap options, significantly improving outdoor adaptability and making it easier to navigate diverse environments. The HUAWEI WATCH FIT 5 Pro is designed to support golf, trail running, and cycling, further elevating the series’ appeal for both everyday wear and professional sports.

At the heart of this series lies a groundbreaking redesign of the device’s body. The HUAWEI WATCH FIT 5 continues to prioritize slim and lightweight construction, offering a highly comfortable wearing experience. The HUAWEI WATCH FIT 5 Pro, however, pushes the envelope further with upgraded material, delivering superior scratch and wear resistance. Every detail has been meticulously crafted to ensure exceptional texture.

The display has also undergone a significant enhancement. The HUAWEI WATCH FIT 5 Series features an ultra-narrow bezel design, maximizing screen space for an immersive viewing experience. The Pro edition, equipped with a next-generation display, boasts a substantial increase in peak brightness, making it ideal for use during intense outdoor activities.

To cater to a wide range of lifestyles, the HUAWEI WATCH FIT 5 Series offers an extensive selection of customizable watch faces, including exclusive designs, personalized options, and thematic collections. This variety ensures that users can find the perfect match for every occasion, from casual outings to rigorous workouts.

From its timeless design and vibrant colors to quality materials and innovative craftsmanship, the HUAWEI WATCH FIT 5 Series reimagines what wearable can be. Join us at the Huawei Innovative Launch Event on May 7 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand. Stay ahead of the curve and experience the future of wearable technology.

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Amitis Capital has integrated Samara Alpha, bringing its team, products and infrastructure into the group as it expands its institutional digital asset platform.

NEW YORK and LONDON, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amitis Capital, the asset management firm born from the Amitis Family Office, has announced the integration of US-based Samara Alpha into its business. Samara Alpha’s team, products and operational infrastructure have been brought under Amitis Capital, with all activities continuing under the Amitis name.

Amitis Capital is the General Partner to ACDAM – its flagship digital asset multi-manager fund, providing diversified exposure across liquid directional, market-neutral and venture strategies.

The integration marks a significant expansion of Amitis Capital’s digital asset capabilities and forms part of a broader strategy to build a fully institutionalised allocation platform for the asset class – the infrastructure through which sophisticated capital will access digital assets at scale.

Monica Monajem, Founder and CEO of Amitis Capital, said:
“The ambition is to build for digital assets what Blackstone, KKR and Apollo built in private markets – a scaled platform that institutional allocators rely on. Amitis was built with that objective from day one, and integrating Samara Alpha is a meaningful step towards that vision.”

Founded in January 2023, Samara Alpha is a US-based institutional digital asset manager whose founding team pioneered tokenised private equity alongside KKR at Securitize Capital. With nearly a three-year track record, its market-neutral and BTC-denominated fund-of-funds strategies have consistently ranked in the BarclayHedge Top Ten Multi-Advisor Funds and are shortlisted for Hedgeweek’s Fund of Funds of the Year 2026, with winners announced in June.

These strategies and the team behind them are now part of Amitis Capital.

Adil Abdulali, formerly CIO of Samara Alpha and now CSO for Amitis Capital said:
“This integration is a natural next step for Samara Alpha. From the outset, there was strong alignment in investment philosophy, standards and long-term ambition. Joining Amitis allows us to scale what we’ve built within a broader institutional platform, while continuing to deliver for investors.”

NOTES TO EDITORS

MEDIA CONTACT
Lauren Shepperson, The Crypto Collective, lauren@cryptocollective.global on behalf of Amitis Capital

About Amitis Capital
Amitis Capital is an asset management firm born from the Amitis family office. Amitis Capital has been building a comprehensive platform for digital asset allocation, combining deep manager selection expertise with institutional-grade infrastructure. As General Partner to ACDAM, its flagship digital asset multi-manager fund, Amitis provides diversified exposure across liquid directional, market-neutral and venture strategies, offering investors a curated gateway to the most compelling opportunities across the digital asset ecosystem.

About the Samara Alpha Integration
Samara Alpha was built as an institutional digital asset platform spanning market-neutral multi-manager strategies, BTC-denominated portfolios and early-stage venture investing, designed to deliver diversified, risk-adjusted alpha across the ecosystem. Drawing on the team’s decades of experience in manager selection, portfolio construction, and operational due diligence, the firm also backs and scales emerging crypto managers, providing capital, infrastructure and risk management to unlock early access to high-conviction strategies for institutional investors.

AWARDS NOTE
Samara Alpha has been shortlisted for the Hedgeweek Global Digital Asset Manager of the Year Awards 2026 in the Fund of Funds of the Year (Annual Excellence) and Fund of Funds of the Year (Sustained Excellence) categories. Winners will be announced in June 2026.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect current expectations regarding future events. Past performance is not indicative of future results. This release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any securities. All figures are subject to legal review and final confirmation.

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LONDON, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, announces the appointment of Diego Mattiolo as School Director and Head of Education of its new London campus, with courses starting from in the 2026/2027 Academic Year.

The appointment marks a strategic step in the evolution of NABA’s educational model and strengthens the Academy’s presence in the UK market, at a time when the country is increasingly focusing on creative education to meet the growing demand for skills in the cultural and creative industries.

With over ten years of international experience in academic management, Diego Mattiolo brings to NABA strong expertise in leading multicultural teams and developing dynamic, student-centred learning environments. His international profile, combined with his strong roots in the UK context, will be key to positioning the new campus within one of the world’s most dynamic and stimulating environments for creativity and artistic professions. As Mattiolo underlines, the goal is to build an international learning environment enriched by the care and craftsmanship typical of Italian expertise, with an inclusive, project-driven approach capable of connecting students directly with the professional world.

Building on the experience and heritage of its Milan and Rome campuses, NABA brings to London a distinctive element: Italian know-how, globally recognised in the fields of design, fashion and visual arts. This heritage is understood not only as a cultural legacy, but as a design-driven approach that integrates research, experimentation and making. It translates into an educational model that combines creative vision with practical application, in line with the purpose: “Through Artistic Intelligence we nurture people to design a new tomorrow.”

From September 2026, NABA London will offer Bachelor’s degrees in Design, Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing Management, accredited by Regent’s University London. The academic offering is defined by an interdisciplinary, project-based approach, built around the “learning by doing” model. Small class sizes, with lab practical up to 28 students, theoretical classes up to 40, will enable direct and continuous interaction with faculty, supporting a highly education focused on individual development and the exploration of each student’s creative talent. Hands-on experience will play a central role through dedicated spaces including the Design Lab, Fashion Design Lab and Textile & Knitwear Lab. They will allow students to work on real briefs, develop practical skills, and engage with professional methodologies and dynamics, in dialogue with leading industry players. The campus is located within Here East, an ecosystem where education, industry and research coexist.

Within the London landscape, this approach also translates into an accessible and merit-driven education, with scholarships of up to £7,000, depending on the eligibility round, awarded to students who demonstrate commitment and talent. The scholarship is awarded as a tuition fee reduction for the first year of study and may be continued into the second and third years, subject to the recipient meeting the required academic progression and performance criteria set by the Academy.

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New full-stack offering turns content operations into an agentic growth engine

NEW YORK and MUMBAI, India, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Firstsource Solutions Limited (NSE: FSL) (BSE: 532809), an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, today announced the launch of a new offering — Agentic Marketing Services — in partnership with Typeface, the marketing orchestration engine for the world’s leading enterprises. The offering is designed to help enterprises move from marketing ambition to scale by transforming, implementing, and operating AI-native marketing systems. It transforms marketing operations into a scalable growth engine and delivers measurable top-line revenue growth beyond operational efficiency alone.

Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises think about the customer lifecycle, and marketing content sits at the center of that transformation. Enterprises deploying AI-driven personalization are seeing up to 40% higher revenue compared to their peers. Content operations is both a growth lever and an efficiency play for CMOs: roughly 30% of CMO budgets go to content; approximately 55% of content work is manual — resizing, localization, brand compliance — while 90% of those manual workflows can be AI-enabled.

“At Firstsource, our approach has been about moving beyond traditional boundaries to build adaptive, intelligence-led ecosystems that deliver measurable outcomes. Content operations is now the most disrupted layer of the modern marketing stack, with Large Language Models reshaping the entire value chain — from ideation and production to governance and distribution — making it both the biggest near-term efficiency opportunity and the most exposed surface area in enterprise marketing,” said Ritesh Idnani, MD and Chief Executive Officer of Firstsource.

“CEOs and CMOs are not looking for a consultancy that hands off a roadmap or an agency that operates in silos — they want a partner who can transform, implement, and operate marketing systems end-to-end. By combining micro-segmentation, personalization, and deep industry context, we help clients build acquisition, engagement, and retention engines that are intelligent, compliant, and scalable. Typeface brings the AI technology to generate personalized, on-brand, compliant content at scale, and Firstsource brings deep experience in customer operations, especially in regulated industries like banking, financial services, healthcare, and retail. Together, we enable enterprises to plan, build, and run modern marketing — turning content operations into a compounding growth engine and delivering outcomes, not just effort.”

The partnership extends the capabilities announced with Typeface’s recent Marketing Orchestration Engine launch — bringing governed AI systems into full-stack marketing operations for regulated enterprises.

“AI only transforms marketing when it’s embedded into the workflows that drive real customer outcomes,” said Abhay Parasnis, Founder & CEO of Typeface. “Firstsource brings deep industry expertise and operational rigor in highly regulated environments. Together, we’re helping enterprises turn AI ambition into operational reality, embedding governed intelligence into the systems that power durable growth.” 

While Typeface provides the orchestration layer that unifies brand intelligence, AI agents, and enterprise systems, Firstsource brings the operational expertise and insights to enable effective decision making and implement and run these systems in complex, regulated environments. Together, they redesign how growth is driven — focusing on the moments, segments, and mechanisms that truly move the needle — enabling enterprises to shift from fragmented activity to scalable, revenue-led execution.

Industry view

“In retail, seasonality and micro-segmentation are where revenue is won or lost. Every peak moment demands thousands of personalized variants across marketing, service, and customer operations — and the retailers who get this right see real movement on acquisition, conversion, and retention, not just efficiency. What makes the Firstsource–Typeface offering different is that it is not another tool — it is an operating capability. Pairing agentic AI with embedded marketing operations is exactly what retailers need to move from broad campaigns to true lifecycle-driven engagement. For the industry, this is a meaningful step-change in how growth gets engineered.”
– Dave Kimbell, Ex-CEO Ulta Beauty; Firstsource Advisory Board Member

“Healthcare payers sit on a real paradox: a huge share of member communication is locked inside PHI and claims workflows where the rules are clear and rightly strict — but the biggest lever on affordability lives outside that envelope, in how payers engage members on wellness, prevention, plan literacy, and proactive disease management. That is a white-space opportunity the industry has barely touched. This is where marketing AI services can genuinely move the needle. With micro-segmentation and agentic content, payers can reach the right member with the right nudge at the right moment — entirely within compliant, non-PHI pathways — and shift the engagement model from acquisition and retention to lifelong wellness. That is how you make healthcare more affordable, improve member experience, and strengthen the economics of the plan at the same time. The Firstsource–Typeface offering is one of the few capabilities purpose-built to operate at that intersection of compliance, personalization, and outcomes.”
– Paul Sanford, Ex-EVP Operations, Cigna Group; Firstsource Advisory Board Member

About Firstsource

Firstsource Solutions Limited, an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company (NSE: FSL) (BSE: 532809), is a global intelligence partner to enterprises across healthcare, banking and financial services, communications, media, technology, retail, and utilities. Its inch-wide, mile-deep practitioners work collaboratively to reimagine business process management.

With operations across the US, UK, India, Philippines, Mexico, Romania, Trinidad & Tobago, South Africa, and Australia, Firstsource combines over twenty-five years of domain expertise with an agent-first delivery model to design, build, and operate intelligent enterprise operations. Through its Intelligence That Operates promise—powered by Kairos, the operating system that makes it real—the company unifies consulting, implementation, and operations into a single full-stack engagement and underwrites outcomes, not effort, turning deep domain intelligence into a compounding operational advantage for firms in the world’s most regulated industries. (www.firstsource.com)

About Typeface

Typeface is a marketing orchestration engine for the world’s leading enterprises, coordinating brand intelligence, AI agents, and enterprise systems across cross-channel marketing operations. Built for large organizations, Typeface combines shared brand intelligence, governed agent workflows, and deep enterprise integration at scale — connecting seamlessly with platforms like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Google — to help teams scale what works without sacrificing quality or control. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Typeface enables organizations to operationalize AI inside real marketing workflows, turning brand standards, approvals, and performance signals into coordinated systems that improve over time. Typeface is backed by Lightspeed, GV, Salesforce Ventures, Madrona, Menlo, and M12, and has been recognized by Fast Company, Gartner, TIME, LinkedIn, and Adweek as a leader in AI for marketing. Learn more at www.typeface.ai.

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CHIȘINĂU, Moldova, April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Startup Moldova Summit 2026 showcased Moldova’s growing position as a startup destination for capital, talent and EU market access, bringing over 2,000 participants, 150 startups, 60 speakers and international investors to Chișinău for the largest edition of the country’s flagship startup event to date.

Organised by Startup Moldova, the Summit announced new international partnerships with Unicorn Factory Lisbon, the Ukrainian Startup Fund and SeedBlink, strengthening Moldova’s links to European acceleration programmes, angel investor networks and cross-border innovation opportunities.

At the official opening, Olga Melniciuc, CEO of Startup Moldova, highlighted the ecosystem’s rapid progress:

“Moldova’s ecosystem has grown to over 300 companies, expanding by 20% year over year. In 2025 alone, startups generated over $60 million in revenue, created over 1,500 jobs, and attracted over $17 million in investment, demonstrating that startups are becoming a real driver of the country’s economic growth. TThe theme of the Summit — ‘Born in Moldova. Built for the World.’ — reflects the ambitiousness of our founders, who are building companies designed to compete globally from day one.”

Strategic partnerships announced during the Summit will expand Moldova’s startup connectivity. Through signed memorandums Unicorn Factory Lisbon and Startup Moldova will support Moldovan startups in accessing international acceleration programmes and scaling opportunities on EU markets.

Moldova Innovation Technology Park (MITP), Startup Moldova and the Ukrainian Startup Fund partnership will facilitate cross-border cooperation, access to funding and integration into the European innovation landscape.

SeedBlink and Startup Moldova announced the launch of the crowdinvesting platform allowing Moldovan startups to raise capital through syndicated investment rounds and connect with European angel investor networks.

Sergiu Rabii, Director of the Innovate Moldova Programme, funded by Sweden and the United Kingdom, emphasised the importance of these collaborations:

“These partnerships show that Moldova’s startup ecosystem is becoming more connected and internationally relevant. By improving access to capital, expertise and markets, Sweden and the United Kingdom are helping Moldovan founders scale faster and build companies with global potential.”

Moldova’s broader business environment is also becoming more attractive for technology companies and founders. MITP offers a 7% flat tax for eligible IT and digital activities. The country is advancing digital nomad and remote work frameworks, preparing a Fund of Funds to expand access to venture and equity capital, and developing Moldova HiTech Park as a future platform for deeptech, R&D and advanced technology industries. Investments in contactless business, e-governance and digital public infrastructure, including the EVO government app, are simplifying public and business-facing services.

The Delegation of the European Union in Chișinău reiterated its support for strengthening Moldova’s innovation ecosystem and connecting it to European opportunities. Julien Schmitt, Director of the EU4Innovation East programme, noted:

“Startup Moldova Summit 2026 reflects the continued progress of Moldova’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. For the second consecutive year, the European Union, through EU4Innovation East, is proud to support this platform that connects founders, investors and international markets. As the number of startups in Moldova grows, so does the need for stronger support structures and access to capital.”

The Summit also featured a Startup Alley where 42 startups showcased their products, and the national final of the Startup World Cup pitching competition. Ten startups pitched to a jury composed of international investors. Prompted AI won and will represent Moldova at the Global Final in San Francisco, competing for the $1M prize. LyricFluent and Argus AI secured second and third place.

Startup Moldova Summit 2026 concluded with a clear message: Moldova is becoming a notable destination for startup investment and global innovation, giving founders improved access to capital, expertise and markets, while offering international partners a fast-developing innovation ecosystem close to the European Union.

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